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NSC’s Resolution about Hate Speeches, Racial and Religious incitements

The National Shoora Council at a special meeting with its Member Organisation (MOs) held on 11 July 2016, resolved as follows:   In the backdrop of the re-emergence of anti-Muslim hate speeches, racial and religious incitements against the minority communities, the NSC calls upon the Government that it has a duty to create and ensure an environment where all its …

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Clinton supporters reject Israel settlements proposal – By Eric Bradner, CNN

Hillary Clinton slams Donald Trump for 'bigotry' in front of pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC - LoneWolf

Orlando, Florida (CNN) – Hillary Clinton supporters rejected an effort Saturday to add a call for "an end to occupations and illegal settlements" in Palestinian territories into the Democratic platform. Clinton's backers argued that the current language in the party's platform, calling for negotiations for a two-state solution in Israel to give Palestinians a homeland, are enough and that going …

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Measuring the Backlash Against the Muslim Backlash

Despite heated campaign rhetoric and the Orlando shooting, new polls show that the American public’s views of both Islam and Muslims have become more favorable. Here’s why. omething remarkable has happened in the middle of an American presidential campaign noted for its inflammatory rhetoric about Islam and Muslims, and marred by horrific mass violence perpetrated on American soil in the …

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BDS is a war Israel can’t win – by Stanley L Cohen

Israel's apologists would call the BDS campaign "immoral", but the slander is laughably false. Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of "the region's only intact society", while simultaneously boasting it can't touch Israel's health and …

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Israeli minister says Facebook a ‘monster’, hindering security

Computer screens display the Facebook sign-in screen in this photo illustration taken in Golden, Colorado, United States July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel's Minister of Internal Security on Saturday accused Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, of not doing enough to prevent incitement against Israel and said the social network was "sabotaging" Israeli police work. Israel has in the past said Facebook is used to encourage attacks and the government is drafting legislation to enable it to order Facebook, …

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Abrahamic Religions Will Define the Future of the World – By Eric Metaxas

In Israel, a Christian cross is pictured in the foreground with a Muslim mosque in the background. (Wikimedia Commons Photo)

If you’re living in America or Europe, the biggest story of this century is probably not what you think it is. Your global worldview forecast is next. We told you recently on BreakPoint that despite appearances in our corner of the world, religion is not going extinct. Quite the contrary. Predictions by the likes of Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud that …

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